Machimosaurus hugii

Machimosaurus hugii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MachimosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 19 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya149.2 Mya165.8 Mya142.6 Mya

20 occurrences of Machimosaurus hugii on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

20 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

10 formations

Alcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WAlcobaça — 39.82°N, 8.65°WSables de Glos — 49.11°N, 0.38°EOxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WRaetschenbank — 47.17°N, 8.53°EMont-Lambert — 50.77°N, 1.63°ECalcaires marneux à Ptérocères — 46.09°N, 4.79°EArgiles de Châtillon — 50.72°N, 1.62°ECouches à Cidaris chofatti — 39.37°N, 9.15°WCalcaires Coquilliers — 49.40°N, 0.15°ELastres — 43.48°N, 5.44°W

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The named rock units Machimosaurus hugii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Machimosaurus hugii and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Machimosaurus hugii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Machimosaurus hugii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

12 references

Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Machimosaurus hugii

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Machimosaurus hugii · nms:paleontology:NMSO 7039

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMachimosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1837)